# Best. Marriage Proposal. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 9, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473 "2009-07-09T17:26:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/1 "2009-07-09T17:26:48Z")
I am assuming this is real. The girl looks genuinely shocked. Make sure you get at least to the 1:20 mark before you quit. It’s better than it looks at first. [Best. Marriage Proposal. Ever.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hi5rmpAM8E&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.i-am-bored.com%2Fbored_link.cfm%3Flink_id%3D41950&feature=player_embedded) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/2 "2009-07-09T17:59:06Z")
Wow. You’d have to be pretty certain that the answer would be yes though… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/3 "2009-07-09T18:04:59Z")
His proposal is a big Broadway-style song and dance number? Hell, that’s not a warning sign or anything. Seriously, though, pretty cool if it’s real. I’m guessing the guy and all the dancers are park employees, otherwise I can’t see how he could have set something like this up. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Why\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@The\_Why\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Why_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/4 "2009-07-09T18:06:26Z")
Very cool. Did anyone notice the youtube comments suggesting this might be staged? Seriously? There was a musical number and a choreographed dance routine, and these people feel the need to discuss whether or not it was staged? Even for youtube posters, that’s pretty dim. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/5 "2009-07-09T18:07:53Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > His proposal is a big Broadway-style song and dance number? Hell, that’s not a warning sign or anything. That’s Bollywood. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/6 "2009-07-09T18:10:35Z")
The 1:20 mark is the point at which I realized I should turn it off. Not my thing at all. It’s very well staged though, I’ll give 'em that, the sound is well done and there’s what, at least 4 different camera angles. This was a big production. ETA: I agree the girl didn’t know it was coming, she wasn’t part of the stunt. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/7 "2009-07-09T18:12:58Z")
> [@The\_Why\_Bird](#): > > Very cool. Did anyone notice the youtube comments suggesting this might be staged? Seriously? There was a musical number and a choreographed dance routine, and these people feel the need to discuss whether or not it was staged? Even for youtube posters, that’s pretty dim. I’m assuming they meant to say “fake” (i.e., not actually a couple getting engaged) - maybe I’m giving them too much credit, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Why\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@The\_Why\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Why_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/8 "2009-07-09T18:22:25Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I’m assuming they meant to say “fake” (i.e., not actually a couple getting engaged) - maybe I’m giving them too much credit, though. yes you must be right. Which is a shame, because I’d love to imagine that these people live in a world where complete strangers spontaneously burst into song and dance, and everyone around them knows the steps and hits the right notes. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/9 "2009-07-09T18:26:14Z")
It was Photoshopped. (And to be honest, if that’s how it started, I’d imagine that living with that guy would eventually become insufferable.) ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/10 "2009-07-09T18:28:16Z")
Guys, I think this was staged. Something about it feels, off. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/11 "2009-07-09T18:31:37Z")
> [@The\_Why\_Bird](#): > > yes you must be right. Which is a shame, because I’d love to imagine that these people live in a world where complete strangers spontaneously burst into song and dance, and everyone around them knows the steps and hits the right notes. [You mean like this?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/12 "2009-07-09T18:32:09Z")
And here comes the [we’re pretty sure it’s fake](http://jezebel.com/5304650/disneyland-musical-marriage-proposal-magical--romantic-or-lamest-scam-ever) judgement. Supposedly - according to an anonymous source - the lovely bride-to-be is dating a man who is not the gentleman in that video. So, apparently it’s just a PR stunt? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/13 "2009-07-09T18:43:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > His proposal is a big Broadway-style song and dance number? Hell, that’s not a warning sign or anything. It can take some guys quite a while to grow a beard of their own. [QUOTE=jjim] (And to be honest, if that’s how it started, I’d imagine that living with that guy would eventually become insufferable.) [/QUOTE] Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/14 "2009-07-09T18:45:07Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > It was Photoshopped. Can you tell by the pixels? Amazing video. Even if she’d said no, it still would have been an amazing memory. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/15 "2009-07-09T18:53:37Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > [You mean like this?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M) [Or that time in the library?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mUyvaPtsJw) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Why\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@The\_Why\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Why_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/16 "2009-07-09T18:57:56Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > [You mean like this?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M) You just made my day. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/17 "2009-07-09T19:23:42Z")
I didn’t like it. Not because it was staged, but because the proposal became all about the proposer. Call me old fashioned, but a marriage proposal should focus on the proposee. Spectacular proposals are narcissistic, and I suspect that people who propose using sky writing, billboards, etc. are attention whores, and that this doesn’t change after marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/18 "2009-07-09T19:32:07Z")
Yet another example of TMI in public (assuming of course it’s a real proposal). ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/19 "2009-07-09T19:40:07Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I didn’t like it. Not because it was staged, but because the proposal became all about the proposer. Call me old fashioned, but a marriage proposal should focus on the proposee. Spectacular proposals are narcissistic, and I suspect that people who propose using sky writing, billboards, etc. are attention whores, and that this doesn’t change after marriage. Agree completely. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLHKUnQC3bU) is my favorite one of these kinds of proposals. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473/20 "2009-07-09T19:40:09Z")
Why did I feel like I was watching an episode of \*Ugly Betty \*with Henry proposing to a much hotter Betty? Oh, and Justin obviously did the choreography. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-marriage-proposal-ever/502473.md?page=2)